STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH

Mount Ontake, Japan's second highest volcano, erupts on Saturday injuring at least eight people and leaving more than 30 people stranded near the peak. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he has issued instructions to mobilise the military to help in the rescue effort. The volcano, located some 200km (125 miles) west of Tokyo, stands at 3,067 metres (10,062 feet) high

Spectacular amateur footage has emerged of the Mount Ontake eruption in Japan, believed to have killed at least 31 people. Survivors have told horrific stories of watching hikers die when tonnes of ash and rocks thundered from the sky. The search for bodies was again hampered on Monday by poisonous gases still spewing from the volcano